City of Houston

Monday, August 27, 2018

10:00 A.M.

Fire Station 8 – 1919 Louisiana St. Houston, TX 77002

The Houston Fire Department has partnered with St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital to raise awareness for September, Childhood Cancer Awareness Month.

Houston Firefighters from fire stations across the city will swap their uniforms for a gold t-shirt on Monday, August 27, from 12pm- 5pm in honor of National Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Gold is the official color of Childhood Cancer Awareness Month. Each year, approximately 16,000 children and teens in the U.S. are diagnosed with cancer. Once in five of those children won’t survive.

On September 22, 2018, supporters of St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital in communities across the country will join to participate in the St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer, an exciting family-friendly event to raise money for the children of St. Jude.  In 2017, more than 90,000 people participated in 63 events across the country and one virtual event, collectively raising more than $10.5 million. The Houston St. Jude Walk/Run to End Childhood Cancer will take place at Minute Maid Park in the Diamond Lot.

Fire Chief, Samuel Pena, will join a local St. Jude patient family and SUNNY 99.1 personality, Dana Tyson, at Fire Station 8 to speak on the partnership and why it’s important to support the St. Jude mission.

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital is leading the way the world understands, treats and cures childhood cancer and other life-threatening diseases. It is the only National Cancer Institute-designated Comprehensive Cancer Center devoted solely to children. Treatments developed at St. Jude have helped push the overall childhood cancer survival rate from 20 percent to 80 percent since the hospital opened more than 50 years ago. St. Jude freely shares the breakthroughs it makes, and every child saved at St. Jude means doctors and scientists worldwide can use that knowledge to save thousands more children. Families never receive a bill from St. Jude for treatment, travel, housing and food — because all a family should worry about is helping their child live. To learn more, visit stjude.org.